The Mercantile Effect – Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During the 17th and 18th Centuries
Autor Sussan Babaie, Melanie Gibsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 dec 2017
This
lavishly
illustrated
book
collects
papers
delivered
at
the
third
Gingko
conference:
“The
Mercantile
Effect:
On
Art
and
Exchange
in
the
Islamicate
World
During
17th
̶18th
Centuries.”
Held
in
Berlin,
this
meeting
brought
together
a
group
of
established
and
early-career
scholars
to
discuss
how
the
movement
of
Armenian,
Indian,
Chinese,
Persian,
Turkish,
and
European
merchants
and
their
trade
goods
spread
new
ideas
and
new
technologies
across
Western
Asia
in
the
early
modern
era.
Through
the
newly-established
Dutch,
English,
and
French
East
India
companies,
as
well
as
much
older
mercantile
networks,
prestigious
exotic
commodities—silk,
ivory,
books,
glazed
porcelains—were
transported
east
and
west.
The
collected
essays
in
this
volume
introduce
a
fascinating
array
of
not
only
trade
objects
but
also
customs
and
traditions
that
bring
this
period
of
intense
cultural
interplay
to
life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781909942103
ISBN-10: 1909942103
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 170 color plates
Dimensiuni: 251 x 245 x 18 mm
Greutate: 1.08 kg
Editura: Gingko Library
ISBN-10: 1909942103
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 170 color plates
Dimensiuni: 251 x 245 x 18 mm
Greutate: 1.08 kg
Editura: Gingko Library
Notă biografică
Melanie Gibson is the senior editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Cuprins
Foreword by Melanie Gibson
Introduction by Sussan Babaie The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World
Suet May Lam Fantasies of the East: ‘Shopping’ in Early Modern Eurasia
Amy S. Landau The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of ‘Life-Likeness’
William Kynan-Wilson ‘Painted by the Turcks themselves’: Reading Peter Mundy’s Ottoman costume Album in Context
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans’ Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore
Nancy Um Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha
Federica Gigante Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum
Anna Ballian From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios
Christos Merantzas Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece
Francesco Gusella Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India
Gül Kale Visual Embodied Memory of an ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East
Contributors
Introduction by Sussan Babaie The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World
Suet May Lam Fantasies of the East: ‘Shopping’ in Early Modern Eurasia
Amy S. Landau The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of ‘Life-Likeness’
William Kynan-Wilson ‘Painted by the Turcks themselves’: Reading Peter Mundy’s Ottoman costume Album in Context
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans’ Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore
Nancy Um Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha
Federica Gigante Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum
Anna Ballian From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios
Christos Merantzas Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece
Francesco Gusella Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India
Gül Kale Visual Embodied Memory of an ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East
Contributors
Recenzii
“This
elegant
volume
edited
by
Sussan
Babaie
and
Melanie
Gibson
is
a
pioneer
effort.
.
.
superbly
illustrated
and
kaleidoscopically
examined.”
"From decoratively designed porcelain and pocket watches, to the adoption of 'themes and motifs from Ottoman art' in eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical textiles, this informative collection of essays explores how the 'irresistible quest for new markets' established 'connectivity' between the two cultures that 'transcend[ed] barriers.'"
Descriere
This lavishly illustrated book collects papers delivered at the third Gingko conference: “The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During 17th ̶18th Centuries.” Held in Berlin, this meeting brought together a group of established and early-career scholars to discuss how the movement of Armenian, Indian, Chinese, Persian, Turkish, and European merchants and their trade goods spread new ideas and new technologies across Western Asia in the early modern era. Through the newly-established Dutch, English, and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, prestigious exotic commodities—silk, ivory, books, glazed porcelains—were transported east and west. The collected essays in this volume introduce a fascinating array of not only trade objects but also customs and traditions that bring this period of intense cultural interplay to life.